The E-Sylum: Volume 10, Number 6, February 11, 2007, Article 11
D. B. COOPER CASH STASH FOR SALE
On Thanksgiving eve, 1971, the infamous "D. B. Cooper" parachuted
into history with his hijacker's ransom of 10,000 U.S. twenty dollar
bills. His is still the only unsolved domestic skyjacking in U.S.
history. In 1980 an 8-year-old boy digging a fire pit along the
north bank of the Columbia River west of Vancouver unearthed $5,800
of Cooper's loot, badly decomposed but identifiable by serial number.
On the 30th anniversary of the event, I wrote an item for The E-Sylum
asking, "Is anyone aware of a published list of serial numbers? Have
any others been found? And what of the notes found in 1980 - are they
still in an evidence locker somewhere?"
ANA Museum Curator Larry Lee provided this follow-up:
"There are at least five $20 bills still in the hands of the
family that discovered three bundles of the notes ($5,800
face) along the Columbia River, ten years after the incident.
The ANA was planning on having a display case at the
New York ANA Convention this year showing the bills,
but after 9/11, an exhibit on planes and hijacking in New
York was inappropriate, so the idea was shelved. The
$20 notes are in very, very poor shape, though their serial
numbers do correspond to the FBI's list of the $200,000
provided to the mysterious Mr. Cooper."
The eight-year-old boy who found the money? His name is Brian Ingram.
Today I received the following note from Trixie Ingram, who had found
our E-Sylum articles online. She writes: "There are more than five bills
- in fact, you can see a picture of all the bills at www.dbcoopermoney.com.
It is the Ingram family's plan to open the bills up to the public
for sale."
D. B. COOPER: WHERE IS YOUR LOOT?
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D. B. COOPER CONFESSION?
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D. B. COOPER LOOT
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To view the D. B. Cooper loot, see: dbcoopermoney.com/